Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Charles Crawford

She went into the ditch to keep from hitting people, ... She's got a cracked vertebrae, but she's going to be fine. She's just a little skinned up.

Cilla Black

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

Jeff Garcia

Yeah, I'd like to be in school. Just friends. Staying at home isn't all what it's cracked up to be. It's pretty boring.

Alice Oswald

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Allard Beutel

We're not seeing tanks floating down the rivers. We're not seeing tanks cracked open.

Elmore Leonard

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Tom Brokaw

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Lindsay Whalen

Obviously it won't be healed before the end of the finals, but it's one of those situations where the swelling, if it can go down, and it's not in the worst possible spot ... Obviously it cracked in the first half (Saturday) and I played the second half, so it wasn't like I was incapable to run, ... Obviously there's swelling and there's some stiffness in there, so right now running I wouldn't be able to do. But you never know over the next few days how things work. We'll just wait and see what happens.

Roxanne Cardejon

We started out with only one tumbler and we ended up with seven at the KIF championships.

Angelo Babbaro

We started out last year also at 3-0, but we ended up going 3-3, so we've got to keep up the intensity.

Darren Rommerdahl

We started off a little slow but got better as the game went on ...When we ended up getting our opportunities, we were hungry enough to go and get some goals.

John Shaw

We started flat, we played flat and we ended flat. I don't know why, but maybe my younger players just weren't ready for it.

Jon Groth

We were too passive offensively today until the ninth, when we put up some runs. I was glad to see us come back late. It ended just short of where we needed it to.

Scott Coval

When we had 70 points, I thought if we could get the game into the 80s, we'd have a good chance. We were going up and down and then we stopped scoring the last 21/2 minutes and we ended up with 70.

Lauren Herring

When we got there, our luggage got lost and our hotel was bad. Everything was awful. When we finally got to our final hotel, it was like 2 in the morning. I said then, 'Even if I win this tournament, it's going to be the worst tournament ever.' It ended up being not so bad, though.

Tim Fish

I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.

Ewen Bremner

I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

David Sedaris

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Charles Spurgeon

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

Alan Bennett

Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.

Al Jourgensen

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Cal Thomas

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chris Burke

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Chip Conley

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.